Sound quality afer importing to dvd

after i export my movie to dvd, the fades of the music jumps around or disjointed when the two pieces of music are joined together. When i view it in imovie the sound is perfect. Is there something i am doing wrong? Is there a wrong setting.
Dan

There are several problems that you need to consider. A mono VCR plays back the sound that is encoded in a very slow moving tape playback. Think of reel to reel tape at 1.75ips. Some stereo material gets lost in this translation. Stereo is recorded at a much higher quality at a faster rate. Think of reel to reel tape at 15ips. Playing back through a HiFi VCR should improve the sound quality. Once recorded to iMovie, extract the sound and adjust it as a separate sound source through Garage Band or other sound processing program. Make sure that it is placed back in the exact location when returning it to your iMovie sound track.

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